STATE OF NEW YORK
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5713
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
tural faults within forty-eight hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. Every professional engineer, land surveyor and professional geolo-
4 gist who finds a structural defect, fault, or other issue with any type
5 of structure shall report such issue to the county, city, town, village
6 and/or other political subdivision in which such structure is located
7 within forty-eight hours of discovering such issue.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04392-01-5
